Possible project (was Re: US states want MS Office ported toLinux (fwd))

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Fri, 14 Dec 2001 08:06:08 -0700


I would volunteer too. - Sundar.

KevinO wrote:

>"der.hans" wrote:
>
>>Am 13. Dec, 2001 schwätzte Victor Odhner so:
>>
>>>Maybe a local computer hardware store that was willing to endure
>>>Microsoft's wrath?
>>>
>>PC Club will let us come in and do demos. We could probably arrange for a
>>kiosk machine, but we'd need to supply the machine. We could probably get
>>them to run one of the "run off the CD" distros on their demo boxen.
>>
>We should demonstrate a box that has been crippled up by using a 'run
>from CD' system or one that hasn't been carefully setup and configured
>so that everthing works right.
>3D accel, sound, cd writer and software, browser, wheel mouse and
>anything we could think of and get going. This probably means one of us
>should set up the box ahead of time.
>
>
>>I might be able to get us in Frys in Tempe as well. We've got to have
>>volunteers who will commit to supporting the demos if we go into Frys.
>>
>
>I would volunteer some time ...
>